CALL FOR PAPER
*Lo Squaderno: Explorations in Space and Society*
*Neighbourhood Portraits*
*editors:* Cristina Mattiucci, Andrea Pavoni & Andrea Mubi Brighenti
A neighbourhood is a place where people inhabit, often intensively. It is
here, ‘between’ the city at large and the domestic unit, that urban habits
emerge out of the rhythmic routine of daily activities, and a peculiar
affective atmosphere coalesces. While a neighbourhood is a geographical and
administrative unity, spatially and bureaucratically defined, each
neighbourhood overflows this bi-dimensional confinement by assuming a
porous, rhythmic and atmospheric consistency that challenges us to develop
new ways to explore, describe and attune to it. Today, as the urban is
increasingly exceeded by dislocated and global processes, the boundaries of
the city become porous, its spaces deterritorialised and prolonged
elsewhere, its fabric stretched and bent by abstract forces and structures;
the significance of the neighbourhood as a unit of identity formation and
symbolic status – a space where to find refuge, as well as a launch-pad to
explore the city – remains and, seemingly, increases. At the same time,
neighbourhoods incessantly change, being prolonged onto other space-times
by processes of regeneration, touristification, gentrification, often
becoming much closer – socio-culturally, economically, aesthetically – to
other cities’ neighbourhoods than to their actually neighbouring place. In
the meanwhile, other neighbourhoods may remain stuck, seemingly frozen in
an eternal sameness, while around them the city 'evolves'.
How to develop a way to understand neighbourhoods deeply without freezing
them into clichés, by simultaneously attending to their (often
morally-laden) imaginary and penetrating its apparent homogeneity? How to
define, how to perceive, how to enclose a neighbourhood? What kind of
entities are neighbourhoods, and what kind of local life do they
afford? How are neighbourhood bounded, what are their boundaries made off,
and how to they overflow onto other neighbourhoods in the same city, or in
other ones?
These are just some of the questions that inspire this issue of *lo
Squaderno*: we invite contributors to sketch a series of neighbourhood
portraits that – whatever the style and approach employed – be able to
convey its most peculiar traits. Contributions from the most diverse
geographic settings and based on all theoretical perspectives are welcome,
provided that they are coupled with a close phenomenological commitment to
neighbourhood description and interpretation.
Extended Call for Papers | *here*
<http://www.losquaderno.professionaldreamers.net/?page_id=1817>
Deadline for abstract (100-150 words) | *15* *March 2019*
Deadline for contributions | *1 June 2019*
Contributions expected word count |* 2000 words*
Info about editorial process |* here
<http://www.losquaderno.professionaldreamers.net/?page_id=1082>*
Info about the journal | *here*
<http://www.losquaderno.professionaldreamers.net/?page_id=2>
Please submit your abstracts to
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@iscte-iul.pt
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